Study of Muons Associated with Jets in Proton-antiproton Collisions at Sqrt.s

Study of Muons Associated with Jets in Proton-antiproton Collisions at Sqrt.s
Author: David Austen Smith
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Production of heavy quark flavors in proton-antiproton collisions with a center-of-mass energy of 1.8 $\times$ 10$\sp{12}$ electron volts is studied for events containing hadronic jets with a nearby muon track, where both the jet and the muon are produced at large angles from the incident beams. The muon tracking system and pattern recognition are described. Detailed calculations of the muon background due to meson decay and hadron noninteractive punchthrough are presented, and other background sources are evaluated. Distributions of muon transverse momentum relative to the beam and the jet axis agree with QCD expectations for semileptonic charm and beauty decay. Muon identification cuts and background subtraction leave 57.5 $\pm$ 17.1 muon-jet pairs, a rate consistent with the established production cross sections for charm and beauty quarks and the acceptance for minimum ionizing particles overlapping with nearby jets. A small dimuon sample clarifies the muon signature. No signatures of undiscovered phenomena are observed in this new energy domain.

Search for Weakly-interacting, Long-lived Particles that Decay to Displaced Hadronic Jets in Proton-proton Collisions at Sqrt{s}

Search for Weakly-interacting, Long-lived Particles that Decay to Displaced Hadronic Jets in Proton-proton Collisions at Sqrt{s}
Author: Daniel Blackburn
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Total Pages: 118
Release: 2015
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A search is presented for the decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson or another scalar boson to a pair of weakly-interacting, long-lived particles in 20.3 fb^{-1} of proton-proton collisions at sqrt{s} = 8 TeV recorded in 2012 by the ATLAS detector. The strategy requires that one of the long-lived particles decay inside the muon spectrometer. The second long-lived particle is required to decay in the inner detector or the muon spectrometer. No excess of events is observed above the expected background. Limits are derived on the scalar boson's production cross section times branching ratio as a function of the long-lived particle's proper decay length.